Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West

New York: Random House, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); [x],337pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $17.95 price intact; boards in red paper and darker red cloth with gilt lettering and red foil rules to spine. Dust jacket toned and lightly creased along edges; small chip to top of spine and bottom and very short closed tear to base. Light wear to edges of boards; general rubbing and a few stains and smudges. Mild lean to boards but binding is sound.Stain to fore-edge of text block, briefly affecting margins of preliminaries, interior else unmarked.

Overall a Very Good copy of McCarthy's (truncated) fifth novel, a horrifying anti-Western generally regarded as his magnum opus. (Inventory #: 32461)